The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1780202415

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-166228

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Sapper, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/116805382

Title:: Mexico

Edition:: 2., vollst. neubearb. Aufl. der "Wirtschaftsgeographie von Mexico"

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Seidel

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 164 Seiten, [8] Blätter; Ill., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Die einzelnen Wirtschaftszweige in der Gegenwart

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK Enough to load 40,000 railway wagons | A thousand train-loads! And the Artificial Silk business is barely 12 years old. In 1924, only two Artificial Silk companies had their shares listed on the London Stock Exchange—Courtaulds and British Celanese. To-day there are a score of companies listed. They are springing up, not like mushrooms, as the pessimists say, but like young trees. In a few years there will be twice as many as there are to-day. The demand for the new cloths is insatiable. We have the dyes to make these new cloths in the most radiant colours. Our “ British Dyestuffs Corporation” has now escaped from Government control. The Government has sold its shares. This company is now managed by compe- tent men. At the head of it is Lord Ashfield _one of the ablest business-builders in the British Isles—the man who built up the transportation service of London. While under Government control, this com- pany lost £5,000,000, but it is now making money. It has made a working agreement with the German dyers. It is pledged to 107

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